TomL: Cowabunga! Children's books (65pts)

 

Cowabunga!

No, it’s not Chief Thunderthud from Howdy Doody but the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles led by their news reporter friend, April. 

All these figures are from the often-risqué, frequently NSFW, Brother Vinnie Miniatures. These were an impulse buy years ago when I was picking up some SAGA Vikings I had seen painted on LAF.  This fairly normal version of April will lead us via Sarah’s library cart to the kid’s section where her turtle buddies can peruse the books and eat the snacks Michelangelo snuck in when Leonardo wasn’t watching. 

The turtles are very nice dynamic resin sculpts but assembly was slightly stressful for my clumsy fingers. The delicate bandanas were particularly frustrating, and did I mention a bit delicate? Painted with contrast paints and foundry acrylics,  I attempted to follow the toy’s color scheme which differentiated each turtles skin color as well as bandanas.  

I read on the internet (obviously it must be true) this was to make it more obvious to the parents buying the toys which turtle was which and the cartoon used only one color as it was cheaper. Any excuse to use more colors works for me.

 

  

Points for this entry would be:

5 28mm figures:    25 points.

Sara's library cart:    20 points.

Children's Books:    20 points.

From Millsy: What a wonderful way to paint Ninja Turtles Tom! The way you have pushed the various skin tones to the max to make each one more distinct is brilliant and the contrasting head bands and other kit only highlights that more due to the vibrancy of your brushwork. Love em!